| The term "intuitive Reiki" refers to the ability of | | | | Following her recovery, she learned the Reiki |
| some Reiki healers to locate the origin of a person's | | | | technique herself and opened her own clinic in Hawaii, |
| pain or illness without being told. Without using X-rays | | | | where she lived and worked, healing and teaching |
| or body scans of any type, one who is truly attuned | | | | others until her death in 1980. Emphysema is a life |
| to Reiki energy can find the source of the patient's | | | | threatening disease, the fourth leading cause of |
| suffering. This is how we are able to use Reiki to | | | | death in the United States. There is no known cure. |
| treat animals or plants. | | | | It is very rare for someone to live 50 years after |
| Many people are skeptical of intuitive Reiki, distance | | | | diagnosis. |
| healing and even conventional Reiki therapies. If you | | | | Before receiving Reiki, she was about to have |
| are one of these skeptics, you should know that the | | | | surgery to remove the gallstones, the stomach |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative | | | | tumor and the infected appendix. The surgery was |
| Medicine (NCCAM) is currently sponsoring research to | | | | never necessary. Takata is only one of the people |
| evaluate the benefits of Reiki. NCCAM does not | | | | we know of who have been saved by Reiki. |
| sponsor research for therapies with little or no | | | | Shou Matsui, a Japanese journalist and playwright, |
| evidence supporting their effectiveness. | | | | was a student of intuitive Reiki in the late 1920s. He |
| Over the years, thousands of people have been | | | | wrote that he had successfully treated hundreds of |
| healed by intuitive Reiki. Hawayo Takata, who | | | | patients and that he felt "pain" in his hands when he |
| introduced Reiki to the Western world was herself | | | | placed them over the "source of disease". Other Reiki |
| healed by Reiki. After her husband's death in 1930, | | | | masters have described it as a tingling sensation. |
| she suffered from severe depression and had a | | | | Reiki is unique in that a person can heal themselves, |
| nervous breakdown. She was diagnosed with | | | | as well as others. After learning about Reiki energies, |
| emphysema, stomach problems including tumors, | | | | we become more "attuned" to the world around us |
| gallstones and appendicitis. | | | | and the suffering of others. It makes sense that the |
| After receiving intuitive Reiki treatments for four | | | | term "attunement" is used to describe the Reiki |
| months she was completely healed. | | | | initiation process. |